One Nation, six farcical explanations and no clearer understanding of its housing policy

Key points

• Hanson’s party is leading in the polls, but it has a long way to go before being recognised as a serious political outfit Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast When sent out to do a cleanup job, it usually helps to not make the mess even worse.
• It took One Nation six separate attempts over nearly 24 hours to clarify the basic details of their policy on foreign ownership of housing.
• Between Thursday night and Friday afternoon, the story turned from bizarre to farcical, with attempts to clarify the policy just making the situation murkier as Australians watched a Barnaby Joyce interview;
• a quick do-over on Sky News on Thursday;
• a Pauline Hanson social media update on Friday morning;